[PATCH 0/5] EDAC: Remove edac_align_ptr()

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

Hi,

this edac_align_ptr() thing was part of the original EDAC upstreaming
effort in 2006:

  da9bb1d27b21 ("[PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support code")

Comment above the usage says:

"Everything is kmalloc'ed as one big chunk - more efficient."

but I don't think that "efficiency" is measurable anymore. Then, 15+
years ago probably.

So get rid of it in favor of simple kzalloc() allocations for the couple
of structures needed at each call site.

It boots fine here with amd64_edac but I'd greatly appreciate testing
with other EDAC drivers.

Thx!

Borislav Petkov (5):
  EDAC/mc: Get rid of silly one-shot struct allocation in
    edac_mc_alloc()
  EDAC/pci: Get rid of the silly one-shot memory allocation in
    edac_pci_alloc_ctl_info()
  EDAC/device: Get rid of the silly one-shot memory allocation in
    edac_device_alloc_ctl_info()
  EDAC/device: Sanitize edac_device_alloc_ctl_info() definition
  EDAC/mc: Get rid of edac_align_ptr()

 drivers/edac/edac_device.c       | 135 +++++++++++++------------------
 drivers/edac/edac_device.h       |  14 ++++
 drivers/edac/edac_device_sysfs.c |   5 +-
 drivers/edac/edac_mc.c           |  96 +++-------------------
 drivers/edac/edac_module.h       |   2 -
 drivers/edac/edac_pci.c          |  25 +++---
 6 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 182 deletions(-)

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